UW Cinematheque - Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair
Such A Pretty Little Beach | France | 1949 | DCP | 91 min. | French with English subtitles Director: Yves Allégret
Event Details
Date
Sunday, June 28, 2026
Time
7 p.m.
Location
4070 Vilas Hall
Description
Cast: Gérard Philipe, Madeleine Robinson, Jean Servais
Awash in a desolate atmosphere of intense portent, few films summon a mood of misery quite like Such a Pretty Little Beach. In postwar France, a man (Philipe) on the run returns to the seaside enclave of his tragic war-torn youth during the town’s rain-drenched off-season. Classically expressionistic, the inhospitable nature of the climate reflects our protagonist’s own fraught psychological torment and a newfound guilty conscience.
Awash in a desolate atmosphere of intense portent, few films summon a mood of misery quite like Such a Pretty Little Beach. In postwar France, a man (Philipe) on the run returns to the seaside enclave of his tragic war-torn youth during the town’s rain-drenched off-season. Classically expressionistic, the inhospitable nature of the climate reflects our protagonist’s own fraught psychological torment and a newfound guilty conscience.
Cost
Free
Contact
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please email jehealy@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Requests should be made by Sunday, June 14, 2026, though reasonable effort will be made to support late accommodation requests.